Levodopa addiction
- 31 August 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
- Vol. 78 (3) , 356-360
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0447.1988.tb06347.x
Abstract
A case is presented of a young woman with a serious addiction to levodopa who over the years developed an extrapyramidal syndrome and chronic paranoid psychotic behaviour. The possible pathophysiological mechanism is discussed.Keywords
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